What's Not On Paper
Like a lot of people on this side of the world this week, I have been thinking about and writing about changes. With eclipses, and daytime darkness, necessarily comes the thought process of what disruption looks like in the different systems we are part of in the different aspects of our lives. These thoughts, coupled with more wonderful conversations with people I know in different ways and from different roles I have had at institutions, or through accessibility advocacy, has me particularly thinking about the difference between what is said on paper, what things like LinkedIn profiles, and titles, and resumes say about a person, and what is not on paper. So that is what I want to reflect on with you a bit this week. This is a longer post and I hope you will stay with me to the end. A connected concept to this idea of what is on paper is how higher education really strives to promote the importance of lived experience and representation, but it does not yet have a real way of express